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This annual event from Initiaal, the alumni organisation from the Plantin Institute of Typography, focuses this time on the publisher. Topics like ‘Which was, is and will the role of the publisher be, and what about the (book)producer?’, and ‘Publishing viewed from all sides’ will be discussed amongst the speakers and the audience.

In this talk, Jo De Baerdemaeker will present some of the typefaces he designed for national and international design projects. These are, amongst others, the fonts for stad Antwerpen, Flanders Art font family, Elegant Contemporary and Wiels; as well as his non-Latin (Lungta Tibetan, Nirmala Bengali, Sherpa font family, Noto Javanese, and Orkhon Mongolian) fonts for Microsoft, Google/Monotype, New York Times; and other projects.

An exhibition with original silkscreen printed type specimen posters, and photography, from Jo De Baerdemaeker / studio type is shown throughout the evening, and a unique type specimen will be printed in situ, as a keepsake of the evening for each of the attendees.

Fifth, and final edition, of the spectacular printing event DRUKOPSTRAAT.

Twenty artists design and create impressive prints on the streets of Ghent, not with a printing press but with a real steamroller, a machine normally used by roadworkers to flatten the surface of the asphalt streets.

Participating artists have carved their designs, beforehand, in a large piece of linoleum. Printouts are made live, during the two-day event, when the artists ink their pieces, spread out their works on the street, and cover these with textile. Finally, the steamroller walses over the works, with the usual ooh’s and aah’s from the audience, and resulting prints are pulled of the linoleum. A true magical moment, both for the artists and spectators.

The print results are presented on location, and also the spectators can experiment and create prints.

DRUKOPSTRAATis organized by Topo Copy, Helix-vzw , Artistieke & grafische projecten and MIAT, in collaboration with Circa Cultuurcentrum Gent for SORRY, NOT SORRY festival.SORRY, NOT SORRY is a street art track in Ghent comprising murals, graffiti, performances and art installations, using the city as bearer and crossbeam.

In a boisterous evening packed with offbeat film, music, performance, and poetry, BOZAR turns the spotlight on the work of I.K. Bonset, the literary alter ego of the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg. The sound artist Jaap Blonk sends his Dadaist verses hurtling through space and captures them on a 7″ record pressed specially for the occasion. With his solo project Voiceover, Marc Matter (a member of Durian Brothers and Institut für Feinmotorik) uses records and turntables to manipulate the human voice. Along the way, saxophonist and clarinettist Joachim Badenhorst will improvise on Van Doesburg’s austere paintings. Avant-garde films by Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling (about whom Van Doesburg wrote in De Stijl in 1921) will throw light on an exceptionally creative period of European art history. [source: bozar.be]

Travel back to the beginning of the twentieth century with Theo van Doesburg and inhale the revolutionary atmosphere of the avant-garde in the exhibition Theo van Doesburg: A New Expression of Life, Art and Technology.

Having founded the art movement De Stijl in the Netherlands with Piet Mondrian in 1917, Van Doesburg set off across Europe to promote their abstract visual language internationally. In Paris he encountered the art of the Dadaists and began writing Dadaist poetry himself. In Weimar he presented his new awareness of beauty to the Bauhaus architects. He travelled round Europe and made his pioneering visual language appear not only in paintings, but also in buildings, furniture and interiors. [source:bozar.be]

The 61th edition of the annual Type Directors Club (TDC) exhibition on typography and typeface design will travel for the first time in its history to Belgium. The winning works of the TDC61 competition can be seen from 14 April until 10 June in the Graphic Design department of PXL-MAD, Hasselt.